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Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine.

I’ve been a fan of Dwayne Johnson since he was first going by The Rock in his WWE days, so I’m always looking forward to whatever new project the star is working on. His movies are like comfort food, because you always have a pretty good idea what you’re going to get when a new Dwayne Johnson movie comes out. At least, that was the case until The Smashing Machine.

One of the most interesting movies on the 2025 movie calendar has to be Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, a biopic about early UFC fighter Mark Kerr. Johnson will star as Kerr in a movie that has transformed him physically and will also be a radical departure for him as an actor in what will be a much more serious drama. Johnson tells Vanity Fair that the reason he’s doing a role like this for the first time now was a very real fear. He explained…